Valeryi Tsapkala

Date of birth: 22 February 1965

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • art. 188 of the Criminal Code — Defamation
  • Art. 400 of the Criminal Code — Deliberately false denunciation
  • Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group
  • Art. 369-1 of the Criminal Code — Discrediting Belarus
  • P. 2 of Art. 424 — Abuse of power or authority

Sentence: 17 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Siarhei Yepikhau

Cases: Donations

Groups: Politicians

Notes: Trials in absentia

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